Kirk Cousins

The AFC North will be a little tighter after Week 4 of the 2016 regular season and the Pittsburgh Steelers can now have a share of the division lead with a win Sunday night over the Kansas City Chiefs. While the Cincinnati Bengals moved to 2-2 on the season Thursday…

On the surface, opposing offenses may look like they’re moving the ball at will. The Steelers have allowed Washington and Cincinnati to go over 375 yards of total offense. But as Mark Twain said, stats can be deceiving, and like Twain also said, the Steelers red zone defense is really…

The Pittsburgh Steelers head into their much anticipated Sunday showdown with the Cincinnati Bengals with full, sparking, molten metal following their 38-16 season opening smackdown of the Washington Redskins. Not only was the victory over Washington impressive, it reversed a disturbing pattern of slow season starts for Coach Mike Tomlin’s…

The Pittsburgh Steelers will host the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday at Heinz Field and the team’s defense will be looking to control quarterback Andy Dalton during the game. Last week in the Bengals regular season opener against the New York Jets, Dalton was sacked a total of seven times and mostly by…

Stop the run, tackle the catch and don’t give up explosive plays. Does that sound familiar to any of you? It should, as that’s exactly what former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau always used to preach during the many years that he was with the organization as it relates to…

The Pittsburgh Steelers opened their 2016 season as one of the two featured games on Monday Night Football visiting FedEx Field to take on the Washington Redskins. The Steelers hadn’t been to Landover since 2008 when they struggled early, falling behind 6-0 after the first quarter, before turning things around…

The regular season is here, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are taking their practices at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, formerly known and still referred to as the ‘South Side’ facility of Heinz Field. While the real work is now upon us, there is plenty left to be done. And there…

Yesterday morning before the game, I posed the question of how the Pittsburgh Steelers would contend with the Washington Redskins’ talented young tight end, Jordan Reed, who caught 87 passes for 952 yards and 11 touchdowns last season in 14 games and eight starts. The covering of tight ends was…

The Pittsburgh Steelers will open their 2016 regular season Monday night against the Washington Redskins and below are seven things that I believe the team will need to do in order to come away with a road win. Run right, right from the start – Even through the Steelers offense…

This year, Josh Carney and I will break down the opposing team’s offense in our weekly scouting report. You can normally expect these every Friday but with the Monday night game, we waited until today. Like last year, I will be looking at the opposing team in a more broad,…

Now that the 2016 NFL schedule has been released you knew it wouldn’t take long for the betting lines to follow. On Friday, ESPN.com staff writer Ben Fawkes passed along all of the Week 1 betting lines from the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook and it includes the Pittsburgh Steelers opening up…

If we’re being perfectly blunt, and perfectly honest, then we will have to acknowledge that it has been a while since the Cleveland Browns were not a near-perennial laughing stock. Whether it is through questionable personnel decisions, poor drafting, undisciplined actions on the field that cost games, or simply a…

Tuesday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline to use franchise and transition tags has now passed and overall there weren’t any surprises when it comes to the ten teams who decided to use the league’s unrestricted free agent mechanisms. As expected, linebacker Von Miller received the exclusive version of the franchise tag…

Now that the 2015-2016 season is officially over, the offseason will start moving very quickly into the new league year which is now one month away. Prior to the start of the new league year, however, NFL teams will need to designate any franchise or transition players starting on February…

On Friday, we passed along word that Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown may have set several Word Records with the help of Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins and now we know what the second one was. According to a video posted by NFL.com, Brown caught 40 passes from Cousins with…